• Question: can wind alone blow the feathers of a chiken

    Asked by chibi to Carrie, Ellen, Rupert on 16 Mar 2017.
    • Photo: Ellen Williams

      Ellen Williams answered on 16 Mar 2017:

      Only when there is a full moon and the chicken is facing East!

      I had to google this in the end because I have never heard anything like it in my life but (thank you Google) there was actually an experiment done looking at this! I cannot believe it! This article was printed in the Guardian – they were looking at wind in a tornado vortex https://www.theguardian.com/education/2010/apr/20/improbable-research-feathers-chicken

    • Photo: Rupert Marshall

      Rupert Marshall answered on 16 Mar 2017:

      No, the wind cannot blow the feathers off a chicken. They are held on like your hair is.
      The mountain chicken has no feathers at all – that’s because the mountain chicken is actually a frog. Yes, really!

    • Photo: Carrie Ijichi

      Carrie Ijichi answered on 17 Mar 2017:

      I hope not otherwise there’d be lots of naked chickens running around! Their feathers are really well attached so luckily this won’t happen

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